RISK ASSESSMENT ENGINE

• Main Authors: Switalski, Maciej, Furtsch, Joanne, Green, Joseph Jacob, Casey, Christopher P, Wandall, Hilary M, Gu, Neng, Le, Binh P
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.12.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A system, method and computer program product for assessing risk of a process through a set of entities identified as utilizing personal data needing protection from misuse and wrongful disclosure comprising mapping the identified process including identifying a purpose of the identified process and a sensitivity of that purpose; identifying data elements including the utilized personal data and including a volume and sensitivity of those identified data elements; identifying data types including the utilized personal data and including a volume and sensitivity of those identified data types; identifying data subjects about whom data is involved in the process including a volume and sensitivity of those identified data subjects; and identifying the set of entities involved in the process and their locations; and identifying data flows among the set of entities involved in the process; and applying a set of rules against the mapped process to provide a risk assessment of the mapped process based on the risk sensitivity of the process purpose, sensitivity and volume of each data element, data type, and data subject, risk related to the entity locations and data flows among the entity locations.